{"id":459197,"date":"2026-04-19T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=459197"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:26:39","slug":"african-union-condemns-israels-somaliland-envoy-move-reaffirms-somalias-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/african-union-condemns-israels-somaliland-envoy-move-reaffirms-somalias-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union Condemns Israel\u2019s Somaliland Envoy Move, Reaffirms Somalia\u2019s Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa, (SONNA) \u2014 The African Union Commission expresses deep concern and strongly condemns reports of Israel\u2019s decision to appoint a diplomatic envoy to the so-called \u201cSomaliland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission reaffirms the African Union\u2019s unwavering respect for the sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the Somalia, in accordance with the Constitutive Act of the African Union and international law. The Union does not recognize Somaliland as an independent state.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the communiqu\u00e9 of the 1324th meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council of 6 January 2026, the Commission underscores that any unilateral recognition of Somaliland is null and void and warns that such actions risk undermining regional stability.<\/p>\n<p>The African Union remains committed to supporting Somalia\u2019s peace, governance, and national cohesion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa, (SONNA) \u2014 The African Union Commission expresses deep concern and strongly condemns reports of Israel\u2019s decision to appoint a diplomatic envoy to the so-called \u201cSomaliland.\u201d The Commission reaffirms the African Union\u2019s unwavering respect for the sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the Somalia, in accordance with the Constitutive Act of the African Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":459198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-459197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459199,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459197\/revisions\/459199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}